Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

Gerald Henriksen ghenriks at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 18:31:45 UTC 2015


On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:45:13 +0200, you wrote:

>if Fedora changes to more and more recommend "pip", "gem" and "cpan" 
>like installs instead RPM packages it is no longer a distribution over 
>the long because that would mean finally you have a core OS and handle 
>anything else like Microsoft or Apple - does anybody really want to go 
>that road?

It's not a case of whether anyone here wants to go down that road or
not, because we are already there.

There is a reason that the Atomic / CoreOS idea combined with Docker
is gaining traction, and it is because it deals with the reality of
dealing with software whose dependencies don't work in the traditional
distribution world.



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